Me and my brother made a couple of Adirondack chairs for a charity auction and for my grandparents. They are pretty easy to make and we are thinking about trying to sell these to make a little money on the side. How much would you pay for a set of these. They're made out of solid maple and are pretty comfortable.

How much do they cost to make? Based on the ~$80 guess here, maybe go a little lower than that to sweeten the deal. Maybe varnish them too, just to increase the value. The chairs look good though, well done.

Well, so much for that idea. Material alone is about 60-70 dollars a chair. That includes wood, screws, glue, and varnish. It takes about 3-4 hours to make one. I really wouldn't want to sell one for any less than 150 to make up for the cost of material and the time spent on them.

With the Ottoman, they have these at Costco for $300. Those are painted white. I saw non-stained Cedar ones no ebay, though, for $60. It wouldn't hurt to make a few more and throw them on Craigslist or see if there is some sort of consignment shop around you somewhere to give it a try.

I built 2 for my wife out of tight knot cedar. Between the cost of materials and my time there is no way I could make a decent enough profit if I wanted to sell them. I think I'll stick to making a few for friends and family. There is a guy around me that sells them at a Saturday market made out of exotic woods. The single chairs go for $250.

I made 6 for around my fire pit. IMO, you would be very unlikely to make enough $ to actually make the effort worth the little bit of extra scratch. Unless, of course, you make-or have made- a huge quantity to drastically lower your cost of materials. That sounds like more work and $ than I would gamble on something that can be bought at Wally world for $50-75. If you just love doing the wood work and don't mind clearing little profit, then hammer down-see what happens....find a niche.

Thanks for the compliments guys. I've always been into pretty much anything related to construction, and i've always enjoyed woodworking. It looks like i'll just stick to making them for family and friends. I might throw up an add on craigslist just for funnies and see if anyone would be interested.

Well my brother went ahead and put a craigslist add for 300 a set. So we will see what happens. On the other hand, the set we made for a charity auction went for $450! We were pretty pumped about that.

I made 6 chairs back around christmas for presents to my family and have thought about selling them as well. I was going to ask $125 for mine in NC. That would be for a painted chair. Yours look good, I did mine a little different but they are practically almost identical to yours besides the back pieces. Did you router all the pieces?

We used 3/4 solid maple. After I took the pictures we went ahead and put a coat of Teak Oil on them. I'm not sure how the Teak Oil will hold up, but it darkened them up just a bit and gave them a light shine. The only parts we routed were the seat slats. On the arm rests and back slats we just rounded over the edges with the sander. It probably took a little longer to round them over with the sander, but I think I like that look better than using the router.

Yeah, it is definitely maple. I built a couple of these out of pine when i was in high school and I really didn't like working with the pine very much, its pretty soft and doesn't take stain very well.

Iíll drop the issue. But you might be aware that, if Iím representative of your shoppers, and Iím shopping for an Adirondack thatís purportedly made of solid maple, Iím expecting hard maple. If there is white maple stock that looks like pine, I would be disappointed.

wow ... i sort of reviewed my posts and ... i'm coming across as that kind of wakeworld guy i don't want to be.

i'm sorry to doubt.

what i failed to say and i always did think (which is the reason i returned and returned to this thread, and not to be the 'know your grains of wood' ninny) is ... good work. i like. and i'd buy from you when i've got the reason ( ... tho ... i might stipulate the stock material by tree specie ... and willingly pay the mark up for all your extra cost, trouble and bother).

John,
No hard feelings at all man. I really appreciate the apology (although it's not really necessary, I'm a pretty hard guy to offend) we all have those kinds of days, especially in the off season. As for the points, if Mr. Williams ever decides to hand out "BMcGee Mark of Approval Points" I'll be sure to have him throw a couple your way.